Lolita Quotes

“And I still have other smothered memories, now unfolding themselves into limbless monsters of pain.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“Yes, "Lolita" is beautiful. But yes, it's also terrible. We can hold both in our hands.”
― Alisson Wood, Being Lolita

“... she had painted her lips and was holding in her hollowed hands a beautiful, banal, Eden-red apple.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“I often reread passages of "Lolita" for its exquisite language. To me, "Lolita" has no message, no purpose, other than to exist as a marvel of literary creation. It has wit, intelligence and style. It pointedly makes no attempt to serve a higher moral purpose, and previous attempts by critics to find one have proven ludicrous. The annotated edition is accompanied by a brilliant afterword by Nabokov that is a lucid reminder of the pure joy of writing, its interplay with life.”
― Amy Tan

“... бидний харах мэдрэмжээсээ ямагт хамаагүй доогуур үнэлж байдаг аливааг хүртэж мэдрэх чадвар маань барагтай бол арилж алга болохгүйгээр үл барам амьдралын хамгийн хүнд үед үнэн бодит байдлын хамгийн чухал бөгөөд цорын ганц үнэн, зөв хэмжүүр болж өгдөг ажээ.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“She was all rose and honey.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“—we were bristling at each other as if she were still mine.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“¡Que rara es la vida! La suerte nos abandona cuando más propicia deseamos que nos sea.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“What I've always taken away from his words is the sense that we all have something that confines us, that seeks to define us, label us, belittling us in the process, shortchanging our potential. Can it be that that is our sanctuary, our refuge, our way to liberty?”
― Noorilhuda, Catharsis

“He wrote to his father every day. His platoon called his dad a girlfriend.”
― Noorilhuda, Catharsis

“Aurora, you're a child, live like one, don't act like one. Enjoy the innocence, dump the immaturity.”
― Noorilhuda, Catharsis

“Even in death, her mother was winning.”
― Noorilhuda, Catharsis

“She had to save herself from every last one of them. All of them, the people at the orphanage, the foster care system, the middle school, they were all outsiders and strangers and a possible threat.....The counselor couldn't prove otherwise.”
― Noorilhuda, Catharsis

“The spiritual and the physical had been blended in us with a perfection that must remain incomprehensible to the matter-of-fact, crude, standard-brained youngsters of today.”
― Vladimir Nobokov

“Бид зөвхөн үзэл санааны ертөнцөд төдийгүй, эд зүйлсийн хорвоод амьдарч байна. Бодит туршлагагүй хоосон үг ямар ч утга учиргүй.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Одоо миний сайн мэдэх болсон үзэшгүй муухай, үгээр хэлшгүй, тэсвэрлэхийн аргагүй өнө мөнхийн айдас тэр цагт миний дүүрэн жаргалын туяанд жижигхэн хар цэг төдий байж дээ.”
― Vladimir Nabakov, Lolita

“Нөхцөл байдлаа өөрчлөх гэдэг нь мөхөх тавилантай хайр сэтгэлтнүүд болоод эдгэршгүй уушгины сүрьеэ өвчтэй хүмүүсийн итгэл найдвараа тавьдаг заншил болсон эндүүрэл биш гэж үү?”
― Vladimir Nabokov , Lolita

“Хаа нэгэн эргэлт, аль нэгэн учрал дээр тулж очихдоо хэрхэн өөрийн минь "Би" хэмээх хувь чанар надаас зугтан одож, араас нь элдэж орохыг огтхон ч үл хүсэх харанхуй цүнхээл ус руу шунган хоргодохыг мэдэрч байлаа.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Penso agli uri e agli angeli, al segreto dei pigmenti duraturi, ai sonetti profetici, al rifugio dell'arte. E questa è la sola immortalità che tu e io possiamo condividere, mia Lolita.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Ela era apenas a leve fragrância violeta, o suave eco de folha morta da ninfita que, no passado, me cevara com tão poucos gritos de prazer; um eco na margem de uma ravina avermelhada, com um bosque distante sob o céu branco, e folhas castanhas a entupir o ribeiro, é um derradeiro grito nas ervas secas. (p286)”
― Nabokov V., Lolita

“My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“What chance has a lonely surfer boy
For the love of a surfer chick,
With all these Humbert Humbert cats
Coming on so big and sick?
For me, my baby was a woman.
For him she’s just another nymphet.”
― Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

“She showed a fierce insatiable curiosity
for my past. She desired me to resuscitate all my loves so that she might make me insult them, and trample upon them, and revoke them apostately and totally, thus destroying my past.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins, my sin, my soul, Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“The list of lifesavers left him numb, clueless - the action, indifferent.”
― Noorilhuda, Catharsis

“He also knew the language of The Klingons, but the army had no use for it.”
― Noorilhuda, Catharsis

“wut good lo l”
― Obama Christ, LOLLIPOP PART 6: HIDDEN BABIES

“I should have known (by the signs made to me by something in Lolita -- the real child Lolita or some haggard angel behind her back) that nothing but pain and horror would result form the expected rapture. Oh, winged gentleman of the jury!”
― Vladamir Nabokov

“I had ceased to be Humbert the Hound, the sad-eyed degenerate cur clasping the boot that would presently kick him away. I was above the tribulations of ridicule, beyond the possibilities of retribution. In my self-made seraglio, I was a radiant and robust Turk, deliberately, in the full consciousness of his freedom, postponing the moment of actually enjoying the youngest and frailest of his slaves.”
― Vladamir Nabokov

“Because her name is not Lolita; her real name is Dolores, which as you know in Latin means `dolor.' So her real name is associated with sorrow and with anguish and with innocence. While Lolita becomes a sort of lightheaded, seductive and airy name, the Lolita of our novel is both of these at the same time. And in our culture here today, we only associate it with one aspect of that little girl, and the crassest interpretation of her.”
― Azar Nafisi